- present tense form of espy (3rd person singular).
espies
Example Sentences
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A man who stops for gas a sign espies That says a dog out back has quite a knack.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Behind peppy songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” Mr. Mac espies a frantic need to forget those horrors.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
She espies the thorns, and Kateri confesses all.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth
In this situation he remains; but not long, until some one of the condors, with his far-piercing glance, espies the ensanguined object, and comes swooping downward.
From The Boy Hunters by Unknown
And if we pass from this profound knowledge of the objects to the empirical knowledge, to the external perception of bodies, it is in immense number that one espies around one traps laid by nature.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
